If you’ve ever woken up one morning to vague memories of bacchanalia and revelry but can’t concentrate enough because your brain feels like it’s encased in cotton and you just want the twittering birds outside your window to shut up…congratulations! You have just experienced a hangover. Anyone who’s ever been at the receiving end of an overly-inebriated session will swear off drinking for the time being. But meanwhile, something has to be done with all the dizziness, vertigo, and vomity-y feeling the day after.
Fortunately, there are some home remedies to help you. You can raid the fridge for fruit juices, for instance, and guzzle away like juice is going out of style. Fructose helps burn alcohol faster, so some OJ or tomato juice would do just fine. And that entire liquid intake will help you pee more alcohol out of your system and into the toilet where it belongs. While you’re in the kitchen, might as well go and visit the cupboards too. Eating crackers with a bit of honey, which is also high in fructose (even higher than juice by way of concentration, in fact) will speed up the alcohol outtake quite nicely.
Now, if flushing is far from your mind because of that headache, then take an aspirin or an ibuprofen to help relieve the pain. Bear in mind that you must not take anything more powerful than those two, however, because we’re merely treating a hangover here, not some other serious medical condition. Better yet, go organic! Aspirin is actually derived from the bark of the willow tree, but don’t go rushing to your backyard to lick at the foliage. If you’ve got organic salicylate tablets on hand, take those. It’s the active ingredient in aspirin that gives relief from minor pains.
You can also drop a bouilloncube into a cup of hot water and sip at leisure, if you don’t have homemade chicken soup in stock (hey, who does, except Mom?). This will replace the lost salt and potassium you’ve deprived your body when you started swilling like an Irish man at the pub during Happy Hour. And make sure you keep drinking water throughout the day, because you’ve been dehydrated to the point of getting hung over. It’s best to drink lots of water before falling on your bed and dozing off, and then plenty more when you get up.
But if you’re the type who swears by vitamin therapy, by all means, go for it. B-complex vitamins and amino acids are best to de-stress your body from toxins brought about by alcohol. B-complex vitamins are especially good at cutting your hangover suffering time considerably. Amino acids, meanwhile, help to repair the destruction done by alcohol to your protein and carbs supply. So you can either munch on carb-laden food, or take amino acid in capsule form. Either way, you’ll be doing your poor, alcohol-pummelled body lots of good.
Lastly, let time do its job. Sure you may suffer a bit and bemoan the fact that your good friend alcohol has betrayed you once more, but time heals all wounds. In this case, 24 hours ought to be good enough for you to get back on your feet once more, if a bit wobbly, and count the days when you’ll be treating yourself to another round of DIY hangover cures.
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